Education

Experience

I have been consistently receiving the highest teaching feedback from the students in the department of EEE. On 5th September 2022, I also received the best teacher award from the Union Bank of India (UBI) based on the student feedback.

Invited Talks

• An invited expert lecture on ``Deep Learning Applications in Hybrid RF/VLC for 5G and Beyond Communications". SERB and Accelerate Vigyan sponsored a High end workshop (KARYASHALA) on “mmWave band: The Road towards Next generation of Wireless Communication” on 23rd July 2023.
• Dr Shivanshu Shrivastava delivered an invited expert talk on "Deep Learning Applications in Hybrid RF/VLC for 5G and Beyond Communications" in a High-end workshop (KARYASHALA) on “mmWave band: The Road towards Next Generation of Wireless Communication” at IIIT Kota on 23-07-2023
  
  
  Author of the book Cognitive Radios: Security Threats and Defense Mechanisms
  Shivanshu Shrivastava, Artificial Intelligence for Communication Engineering, Eliva Press, 2025.(In Press)
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BOOKS

1. Shivanshu Shrivastava, Cognitive Radios: Security Threats and Defense Mechanisms, Eliva Press, 2024.
   ISBN-10: 9999318525
   ISBN-13: 978-9999318525
   Cognitive Radios: Security Threats and Defense Mechanisms: Shrivastava, Shivanshu: 9789999318525: Amazon.com: Books

2. Shivanshu Shrivastava, Artificial Intelligence for Communication Engineering, Eliva Press, 2025.(In Press)

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

1. Tanya Verma, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Amit Kumar, DP Kothari, UD Dwivedi, “A Novel On-Policy DRL-Based Approach for Resource Allocation in Hybrid RF/VLC Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 550–560, Feb. 2025. (IF: 4.3)

2. Amit Kumar, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Pravallika Katragunta, Michel Barbeau, DP Kothari, Tanya Verma, “A Novel DRT-Assisted Deep Learning-Based Channel Feedback Mechanism for Massive MIMO,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (early access), 2024. (IF: 4.3)

3. Tanya Verma, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Bin Chen, U.D. Dwivedi, Amarish Dubey, “Intelligent Resource Allocation in Hybrid RF/LiFi Networks via Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Based DRL Mechanism,” AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 187, 2024. (IF: 3.2)

4. Arif Raza, Salabat Khan, Shivanshu Shrivastava, M. Wasim, Kaishun Wu, Lu Wang, “A Lightweight Group-based SDN-driven Encryption Protocol for Smart Home IoT Devices,” Computer Networks, Vol. 250, 2024. (IF: 5.6)

5. Shivanshu Shrivastava, S. John, A. Rajesh, P. K. Bora, “Collision Penalty-Based Defense Against Collusion Attacks in Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 3963–3976, Feb. 2024. (IF: 4.3)

6. Tanya Verma, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Umakant Dhar Dwivedi, D.P. Kothari, “Transfer Learning for Resource Allotment in Dynamic Hybrid WiFi/FSO Communication Systems,” Optics Communications, Vol. 546, 2023. (IF: 3.2)

7. Aqsa Ayub, Muhammad Rizwan, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Adeel Anjum, Pelin Angin, Yignit Server, “Securely Offloading Computation to the Edge with the Tangle Cache,” JoWUA, Vol. 13, Iss. 4, 2022. (IF: 3.7)

8. Shivanshu Shrivastava, B. Chen, H. Wang, “DQN Learning-Based Defense Against Smart Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cooperative Sensing Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 163791–163814, 2021. (IF: 3.9)

9. Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh, P.K. Bora, Bin Chen, Mingjun Dai, Xiaohui Lin, Hui Wang, “A Survey on Security Issues in Cognitive Radio Based Cooperative Sensing,” IET Communications, vol. 15, iss. 7, pp. 875–905, Apr. 2021. (IF: 1.6)

10. Shivanshu Shrivastava, B. Chen, C. Chen, H. Wang, M. Dai, “Deep Q-Network Learning Based Downlink Resource Allocation for Hybrid RF/VLC Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 149412–149434, 2020. (IF: 3.9)

11. Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh, Prabin Kumar Bora, “Sliding Window Dixon’s Test for Malicious Users’ Suppression in a Cooperative System,” IET Communications, Vol. 8, Iss. 7, 2014. (IF: 1.6)

12. Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh, P.K. Bora, “Defense Against Primary User Emulation Attacks from the Secondary User Throughput Perspective,” AEU Int. J. of Electronics and Communications, 2018. (IF: 3.2)

13. Shivanshu Shrivastava, D.P. Kothari, “SU Throughput Enhancement of Decision Fusion Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Systems,” AEU Int. J. of Electronics and Communications, Vol. 87, 2018. (IF: 3.2)

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Tanya Verma, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, UD Dwivedi, “An Efficient DRL-Based Technique for Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous WiFi/LiFi Systems,” 31st National Conference on Communications (NCC), IIT Delhi, Mar. 2025.

2. Tanya Verma, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Arif Raza, UD Dwivedi, “Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Q-Networks for Efficient Resource Allocation,” 19th EAI BodyNet, IIT BHU, Varanasi, Dec. 2024.

3. Tanya Verma, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, UD Dwivedi, “DRL Based Efficient Resource Allocation in Hybrid WiFi/LiFi Systems,” IEEE INDICON, IIT Kharagpur, Dec. 2024.

4. Mohd. Rizwan, Wang Xingfu, Yi Ke, Ammar Hawbani, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Pelin Angin, Zhu Han, “A Color-Based Data Poisoning Backdoor Approach for Misleading Adversarial Privacy Prediction,” MobiSec 2024, Sapporo, Japan.

5. Arif Raza, Junfan Xiang, Salabat Khan, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Muhammad Wasim Abbas Ashraf, Lu Wang, “Collaborative Multi-Agent Proximal Policy-Based Resource Allocation in Clustered IoV Networks,” IEEE UIC 2024, Fiji.

6. R. S. Iyer, S. Raj, V. Mishra, Shivanshu Shrivastava, “Deep Learning-Based Multiuser Classification for Malicious User Detection in 5G and Beyond,” IEEE iSES 2024, New Delhi.

7. Litao Ye, Bin Chen, Shivanshu Shrivastava, et al., “Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Based on the Rentable NFT Standard ERC4907,” 13th IEEE ICCCAS, Xiamen, China, May 2024.

8. Shivanshu Shrivastava, “DP-DTL-Based Resource Allotment for Expansive and Dynamic M-WiFi/LiFi Networks,” 15th IEEE CICN, Bangkok, Dec. 2023.

9. Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh, P.K. Bora, “A Simplified Counter Approach to Primary User Emulation Attacks,” IEEE PIMRC 2015, Hong Kong.

10. Shivanshu Shrivastava, S. John, A. Rajesh, P.K. Bora, “Preventing Collusion Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing,” IEEE SPCOM 2018, IISc Bangalore.

11. A. Gupta, A. Banerjee, K. Pathak, Shivanshu Shrivastava, “On Association and Bandwidth Allocation for Hybrid RF/VLC Systems,” IEEE ANTS 2018, Indore.

BOOK CHAPTER

1. Shivanshu Shrivastava, Sajal Agarwal, Bin Chen, “Asset Allotment in Hybrid RF/VLC Communication in the 400–700 THz Band,” in Terahertz Wireless Communication Components and System Technologies, Springer, 2022, pp. 211–230.

PRESENTED IN SEMINARS

1. Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora,``On countering Primary User Emulation Attacks from Secondary User Perspective,'' presented in Xerox Research Center India (XRCI) Open-2016, Bengaluru, 21-22 Jan. 2016.
2. Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora,``A Simplified Method for Multiple Malicious Users? Suppression in a Cooperative Spectrum Sensing System,'' Presented at the Research Scholars Congress (RSC) 2015, IIT Guwahati, 23-24 May 2015.

Institutional Responsibilities

Past Responsibilities

1. Mentored the group "6 Coders" reaching the final round of Smart India Hackathon - 2024, organized by the Ministry of Education (MoE).

   Nodal Center: Bhilai, Chhattisgarh

2. Awarded the International Travel Support (ITS) by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) for attending the 13th IEEE ICCCAS Conference in Xiamen, China from 10th May to 12th May 2024.

3. Received Best Teacher Award by Union Bank of India (UBI) on 05.09.2022 at RGIPT, Jais, based on student feedback.

4. Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship at the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

   From 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020

5. Awarded SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship

   From August 2017 – August 2019 at IIT Kanpur, India

6. Departmental Second Runner-up in Poster Presentation Competition, Research Conclave 2016, organized by the Students’ Academic Board, IIT Guwahati

7. Serve as Reviewer for top journals including (but not limited to):

   1. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

   2. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

   3. IEEE Sensors Journal

   4. IET Communications

   5. IEEE Signal Processing Letters

8. Awarded MHRD, India Scholarship for pursuing Doctoral Studies at IIT Guwahati, after qualifying the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2010

9. Qualified in Chhattisgarh State Pre-Engineering Test – 2006

   (Secured a position among top 1% of total applicants)

10. Best Paper Award for the paper titled “A Simplified Method for Multiple Malicious Users Suppression in a Cooperative Spectrum Sensing System”, at RSC, May 2015, IIT Guwahati

11. Received Travel Grant from IEEE Kolkata Section to present paper at the 27th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE-PIMRC) at Hong Kong, September 2015

12. Published an article in English daily “The Shillong Times” on whether uniforms should be mandated in colleges on 8th January 2024

Research Group

PhD Students

Current Undergraduate Project Students

1) Rajanya Srivastava (On ML enhanced hybrid RF/VLC resource allocation)
2) Parth Kumar, Shakeb Sarwar and Priya Kumari (ML enhanced VLC for oil fields)
3) Gaurav Verma (FPGA based design of MIMO systems)
4) Abhay Krishna, Anshika Bhagat (AI enhanced Health monitoring system)
5) Harsh and Shyam Sundar Biswas (AI based cab rate comparison system)
6) Shashtesh (The Cognitive AI recruiter)

Research Intern

Name: Shivam Verma
Institute: NIT Manipur
Duration: 19.05.2025 - 27.06.2025
Work Topic: AI based security enhancement of cognitive radio systems

Past Students